₦airaland Forum

Keneking:
When is Buhari campaigning for the APC candidate in Benin?

I dey imagine how Ogbemudia stadium go be...except they import touts from Western Nigeria to fill up and get paid N2K/ per noise

Useless party

TheHerald:
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http://www.herald.ng/shared-japanese-billionaires-money-siasia/

pafygodo:
Come what may, PDP can't win the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Ondo state.
Mimiko’s Popularity has grossly waned in the state, and to worsen the situation, he is supporting a candidate who comes from the same senatorial he is from.
Mimiko has to go for a candidate with huge financial muscle that can match the APC money for money, despite the fact that his anointed candidate is a weakling politically. Ondo state.

HungerBAD:
Interesting.

The Government should not waste Nigeria's manpower investigating this man,he should simply be locked up as an economic saboteur.

This Militancy started from Bayelsa,when Goodluck Jonathan was the Deputy Governor,and he introduced this settlement of these RiffRaffs when he became Governor.

When he became President,him and his militant kinsmen had an open season on Nigeria's treasury.

Goodluck Jonathan had one Key to the Central Bank,and Tompolo had the other one,while Asari Dokubo was the Gateman to the Vault.

Goodluck Jonathan knows these Militants,they have been peppersouping together from his Deputy Governorship days.
See how you reasoned? common sense

Arrest Goodluck Jonathan,and Militancy in the Niger Delta will die a Natural Death.

Omooba77:
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/08/pdp-plotting-import-thugs-edo-polls-oshiomhole/

Osyabj:
This Pipeline Destruction Party, PDP mole, the patently corrupt Dogara pretending to be part of APC, is going down.
Now Dogara knows what PMB means by "I am for everybody and I am for Nobody"

The Corrupt duo of Saraki and Dogara, imposed on the Nigerian people by the Oil thieves and pdp, shall not know peace until they both resign or are jailed.

Never again underestimate the Power of Tinubu. He who laughs last laughs best.

This change is real.

OZAOEKPE:
My state is so unique from all other OYEL-PRODUCING-STATE, we are going to chase out of the government house Adams, and retain AIRA because she was married with our money(tax payers fund). Pastor on resumption must chop the fruit of our money on behalf of the people of EDO STATE.

Kolababe:
Theses photos of Mrs Aisha Buhari were shared by Bayo Omoboriowo, Personal Photographer to President Buhari. Bayo wrote the below statement as he posted the photos..

'It's rare to get a photo of the President's wife (probably) in the state house, but I seized the opportunity of the holidays to hang around her.'..


http://www.newseveryhour.com/2016/07/new-photos-of-aisha-buhari.html

360jamng:
https://www.timenaija.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/oo-2.png




Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha has reacted to the recent protest by pensioners in the state.
The elderly pensioners on Wednesday, June 15, took to the streets of the state capital to demonstrate over non payment of their entitlements by the government. Below is the statement issued by Sam Onwuemeodo, Chief Press Secretary to the Governor:

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“The State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has sincerely commended the pensioners in the state for the peaceful manner with which they had conducted their protest on Thursday, June 16, 2016 over the non-payment of their pensions for certain months.
The governor contends that the Pensioners were right to have gone on protest over their pensions, and had only exercised their guaranteed right of protest over an issue affecting them.
It was as a result of the appreciation of the reason for the protest that made the governor to direct the security agencies in the state and all the government officials to be on their toes for the period the protest had lasted to ensure that no pensioner involved in the exercise was insulted or touched. And the pensioners had had undisrupted outing, and even chased away the Commissioner for Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) who was sent to talk with them on what could be made available for them as entertainment, while discussion with their leaders would follow. However, the only area the governor felt and still feel worried with the pensioners was their failure or inability to find out the reason for the delay in the payment of their pensions since such situation had not arisen before now.
The pensioners in the state do not need to be told that the governor loves them greatly and would have also loved to pay them all the arrears outrightly given the option since he had paid them religiously since 2011, until now. And the governor had expected the pensioners to ask question and find out the reason for the delay this time.
Since 2011, and before the current economic challenges across the nation, the government had paid the pensioners in the state without taking cognizance of certain lapses in the administration of the pension payments and the number of genuine pensioners in the state. But the economic situation in the country at the moment occasioned by the mismanagement of the country’s resources over the years, which has also affected negatively the financies of the states has called for stringent measures in the payment of salaries and pensions. It was this development that had compelled the government to find out why between 2011 and now, the number of pensioners in the state has snowballed by 500 percent, and the amount involved gone from hundreds of millions of naira to billions of naira.
That was one of the reasons the government embarked on verification. And preliminary findings have shown that a cartel had used the opportunity offered to them by the change of government in 2011 to inflate unpatriotically the number of pensioners in the state to a level that is unbelievable. And that is what the government has been assiduously working to rectify. And the truth remains that once the government succeeds in separating the fake pensioners from the genuine ones, the genuine ones would be paid their pensions. And this action will be taken in a matter of weeks.
The governor therefore regrets the delay and at the same time appeals to the pensioners in the state for their understanding, bearing in mind that he meant well for them since 2011 when he became governor. It is equally important to let the pensioners know that those urging them to take one action or the other do not love them more than governor Okorocha. For instance, the owner of the particular Radio station in the state that had tried to make out something sinister from the pensioners’ protest was reported to have got more than N750 million from the 4 billion dollars’ arms purchase scandal, and the pensioners should ask those in the radio station why they didn’t bring up the N750 million issue for discussion.
Once more, the governor appeals to the pensioners in the state for understanding.[/b]

Source: http://timenaija.com/governor-rochas-okorocha-reacts-to-the-protest-by-pensioners/

osinbanjoisaliar:
It’s hard to see how President Buhari’s policies are good for Nigeria’s future.

Pete Hoekstra.

Senior Fellow.

The Investigative Project on Terrorism
Washington.

Mr. Hoekstra was the former chairman of the U.S.

House Intelligence Committee from 2004 to
2007.
www.wsj.com/articles/buhari-is-nigerias-problem-not-its-solution-1466109183

Agunnewi:
My attention has been drawn to the fact that GMB hired 13 SANs and 10 lawyers to defend his inability to show the world his WAEC Certificate. That is not good for this democracy…

They said the Military board under GEJ hid GMB's WAEC certificate Today, GMB is President. So who is still hiding Buhari's certificate...

We are not wailing for GMB to show us his certificate (you can't give what you don't have) But to let the world know the scam that he is.

We need to let future generations know that Once upon a time, A Nigerian President was scammed into office without a basic WAEC Certificate

Posterity and future generations need to know That a President was asked to show his WAEC Certificate but he rather went to bring 13 SANs.
Mr saint of our own generation has no WAEC certificate. Shame on us all

tuale4u:
Except from http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/04/senate-gives-buhari-final-warning-over-budget-2016/

Excerpt starting from paragraph 29 of the link provided in Vanguard newspaper.
Below is the Lagos calabar rail route

Okimski:
Fresh revelations emanating from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have it that ex-president Goodluck Jonathan spent about N2.2billion on prayers to fight Boko Haram.
The Nation gathered from an executive director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Aminu Baba-Kusa, that the money was spent on prayers in Nigeria and Saudi Arabia to win the war against insurgency in the country.
This latest development is not part of the $2.1billion arms fund for which former National Security Adviser (NSA) Colonel Sambo Dasuki is being tried.
The monies for the prayer, it was gathered, was disbursed through the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA), as proposed by Baba-Kusa.
Making this revelation was Baba-Kusa himself, in a statement of witness filed in the high court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), where he, Dasuki and three others(Acacia Holdings Limited and Reliance Referral Hospital Limited (owned by Baba-Kusa) and a former director of finance in ONSA, Shuaibu Salisu) are facing trials.
The NNPC director confessed that the money was spent on prayers to hasten the defeat of the insurgents, and that it was released in two tranches of N1,450,000,000 and N750,000,000, adding that the proposal was verbal.
“I approached the former NSA and discussed Boko Haram problems and I suggested there is need for prayers and he considered and accepted in 2013 when he first came to office.
“I personally sponsored many people locally and some few to Saudi Arabia. Some monies were later paid into our companies, which we paid to some of the mallams.
“I then arranged to recover my personal expense which I put into our own businesses.
“We have been spending a lot from our businesses and personal accounts. Money paid through UBA, First Bank and ECOBANK. For Acacia Holdings Limited(A/C 1017330319-UBA); ECOBANK(0122012650); and First Bank(Reliance Referral Hospitals Limited A/C 2022394057). The total amount is N2,200,000,000 from October 2014 to April 2015,” Baba-Kusa confessed.
According to him, he may not be an expert,
“but I used some of the mallams to organise in Abuja, Zaria, Kano, Sokoto, Maiduguri, Kaduna and Saudi Arabia covering 2013 to 2015.
“I give them funds as required from time to time, ranging from N500,000 to N30million, depending on their needs, traveling, sadaqat and others for local expenses and travels to Saudi Arabia for Umrah and Hajj.
“I reminded the NSA many times before payments were made. We grew up together with the former NSA with common friends in ABU.
“Most of the payments in cash were meant to give out cash to people that have been organising prayers. Some transfers to Acacia to other banks were for logistics and also to some mallams in cash.”
On how the prayer contract was arrived at, the suspect said: “The proposal made to the former NSA was not documented by him or myself. The verbal proposal to him was for prayers to overcome Boko Haram within the shortest possible time.
“The engagement for prayers by organising some people to be praying was not formally written down.
“There was no amount of money agreed on. I said to him, I will start organising, which he agreed and said he will see what he would give at a later time.”
Baba-Kusa, who noted that he spent an estimate of over N700million from his own resources before asking for money from the ONSA, noted further that “some of these funds came from disposal of some of my land in Abuja. One in Maitama, one in Gudu and one in Guzape. The Maitama was a little over N200million; Guzape (N80m), Gudu(N18m).”
He added that he kept no records of the money he handed over to the various people they used, but assured the EFCC that he would refund the said cash if he is able to dispose off his landed properties.
“I am making efforts to dispose of my properties in Abuja which would be over the total amount of N2.2billion. If the sales go through and the amount from the sales is made in full, I will make full payment.” he was quoted to have said.
The 19 charges against the five suspects read that, Baba-Kusa, Acacia Holdings Limited and Reliance Referral Hospital Limited are alleged to have “between October 2014 and April 2015 in Abuja agreed to do an illegal act to wit: dishonestly receiving property to wit: an aggregate sum of N2,200,000,000 being part of the funds in the accounts of the Office of National Security Adviser and that the same act was fine in pursuance of the agreement among you and you thereby committed an offence punishable under Section 97 of the Penal Code Act, Cap 532, Vol.4, LFN 2004.”

https://www.naij.com/760177-revealed-ex-president-jonathan-spent-n2-2bn-prayers-fight-boko-haram.html

Kingspin:
Did you heard the amount mentioned? $1 million dollars. You mean a party has such amount while his supporters and the masses are hungry? Nigerians let us rethink.

maupe:
I believe the allegation made by the Ekiti state governor to be true, but I doubt the President is aware of such an action. I can recall his interview by CNN's Amanpour just after he won the elections. I remember he vehemently denied being aware of the draconian activities which were popular during his first stint in power. The same scenarios maybe at work again. But the onus is on the governor to make his fears known to the President before the allegation becomes a Part of political history

kennyman2000:
They should keep coming for the poor. One day, when the poor is fed up, the poor will surely come for them too.

Ezenwammadu:
http://www.channelstv.com/2016/03/01/court-orders-release-of-jonathans-adc/

ezebunafo:
Fresh Dust Raised Over Supreme Court Decision On Rivers Guber Election -Role Of Ex-Governor Peter Odili & Wife Questioned

A fresh hail of dust has been kicked up over the recent judgment of the Supreme Court to return the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Nyesom Wike, as the elected governor of Rivers State. The favourable judgment was given despite overwhelming evidence that appears to show that it lacked fidelity.

Reliable sources have told SaharaReporters that the allegations made by Dakuku Peterside, Wike's major opponent and candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC), should not be dismissed, as there are bold hints that Wike did meet the Supreme Court judges during a burial ceremony in Mbaise, Imo State, in the run-up to the Supreme Court ruling. 

Peterside, had mounted a legal challenge against the declaration of Wike as the winner. He initially got a reprieve when the Election Petitions Tribunal and Court of Appeal deemed the election that produced Wike as dodgy.

But in a shocking twist, the Supreme Court overturned the judgments of both lower courts, a development that sparked a blast of public criticism. Notably, there are widespread allegations that the Supreme Court may have been compromised to declare Wike as validly elected despite glaring evidence of widespread violence and the non-use of card reader machines during the election. 

The allegation grew louder when Peterside openly claimed that Wike had met secretly with some of the judges that heard the matter.  

“Credible information confirmed that Nyesom Wike had earlier confessed to some persons of having met one of the Justices of the Supreme Court in Mbaise during an important burial ceremony, another at Owerri in a hotel and yet others in Dubai and Abu Dhabi respectively,” Peterside had said.  “These Justices were on the panel that decided the matter in Wike’s favour.”  

Our sources now assert that the burial ceremony in Mbaise was of no less a personality than Ugoeze Bernadette Nzenwa,  mother of Justice Mary Odili, a Supreme Court Justice and wife of Dr. Peter Odili,  the former governor of Rivers State.  Wike has publicly acknowledged Dr. Odili as his adviser during the legal battles.

Recounted one of our sources, "At the funeral, Wike met Justice Sylvester Nwali Ngwuta, one of the apex court Justices. It was most convenient for both of them as it looked like a coincidence like they ran into each other at the funeral service. The funeral was a perfect cover. I can also confirm that he met Justice John Inyang Okoro, another Supreme Court Justice in Owerri, Imo State. The meeting with Okoro was facilitated and arranged by Peter Odili through his wife, Justice Mary Odili. Meetings with Supreme Court Justices were arranged within and outside Nigeria.”

A bigger source of suspicion and questions about the fidelity of the Supreme Court judgment is the role of Justice Mary Odili in the weeks leading to the judgment. At a special thanksgiving service to celebrate the decision of the Supreme Court, Governor Wike told the congregation that that Dr. Peter Odili was his adviser during the legal battle. “Let me thank Dr. Peter Odili. He will call me at midnight to tell me what to do. He will say: ‘go to so so place’. I took all his advice and here we are today,” Wike told the crowd at the service.  Wike's words have provoked questions on what kind of advice Odili, a medical doctor, could be offering in purely a legal matter that was before the apex court. Was Odili getting vital tips that swung the case in Wike's favour from his wife, who is in the Supreme Court? Who were the people Odili told Wike to see when the matter was before the Supreme Court? Questions have continued to swirl around the role played by Justice Mary Odili. A source familiar with the matter said suspicions of underhand dealings are strengthened by Wike's meeting with Justice Ngwuta at a funeral service organized by the Odilis.

"Could it be that attending the service and meeting with Justice Ngwuta was one of the pieces of advice the Odilis gave to Wike?” asked the source.  

It’s widely documented that Wike made attempts to meet the Chief Justice of the Federation (CJN) Mahmud Mohammed, but was openly rebuffed. On account of that attempt, the CJN publicly warned all governors with pending election cases not to come near him. Our sources maintained that while Wike failed with the CJN, he succeeded with some other Justices in the Supreme Court. His success was mainly attributed the Odilis.

After the meeting in Mbaise, sources said, Justice Ngwuta was persuaded to contribute to the plan to ensure that the apex court returned Wike as governor. With him and Mrs. Odili pulling the strings, it was not difficult to get the buy-in of the other judges.

It is for this reason that the decision of the Supreme Court on the Rivers State Governorship Election is viewed as a product of compromise, not that of justice, and a legalisation of poll robbery.

On the issue of violence, legal analysts are wont to refer to an earlier Supreme Court judgment on the relocation of the election tribunal from Port Harcourt to Abuja. The Supreme Court had ruled in favour of moving the tribunal to Abuja because there was violence before, during and after the elections in Rivers State.

But in a curious twist, the same court, in the governorship election judgment, said the APC and its candidate, Peterside, did not provide evidence of violence in Rivers State.

Fresh Dust Raised Over Supreme Court Decision On Rivers Guber Election -Role Of Ex-Governor Peter Odili & Wife Questioned | Sahara Reporters
http://saharareporters.com/2016/03/01/fresh-dust-raised-over-supreme-court-decision-rivers-guber-election-role-ex-governor

GodpunishBuhari:
Trash news from trash apc media

God punish buhari 100 folds idiotic foolish man

Thunder fire peterside a million fold

And make amadioha strike amaechi down as well ndi ala... sore losers

timidapsin:
Another video from me

Nigerian Nollywood Actress Cossy Orjiakor travelled to Germany and exposed her bosoms as usual

Disgracing Nigerians anywhere she goes

Watch how she makes Germans uncomfortable in the streets of Germany.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFG68R8AyHE

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dre11:
I wonder oooo. A pastor did the same thing to my dad too but both were now of blessed memory.



what kind of message will a Pastor who is busy sleeping with his female members or congregation be telling the church.



that fornications and adultery is.........

Kolababe:
Chika Ike steps out in Denim plunging Neck line Jumpsuit ..., nice though. Or what do you think?


https://www.instagram.com/p/BCLR0mPBnLo/

shegzyt:
What has happened to all the looted funds they 've recovered? With this loan, nigeria as a nation will be subjected to years of slavery and this will affect the citizen's greatly. I pray God in his infinte mercy grant baba buhari the wisdom to rule this nation. It is well.

joeprince23:
Choi!!!!! PMB is a fool and stuppid

olokfor:
The former House of Reps member was appointed Senior Special Assistant to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora today. Congrats to her. Another photo after the cut..


http://www.metronaija.com/2016/02/photos-president-buhari-with-his-new.html

Chidozieude:
I am not a member of APC but I recollect that they came up with ideas during the election, which is why GEJ is now out of office


It is better to make noise than be a corrupt outfit like PDP

koboko69:
Chukwuma Soludo, former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), says the presidential regime of Goodluck Jonathan had “the worst economic management team” relative to available resources. The former Anambra state governorship aspirant also lamented that the Jonathan administration left the country with an “unprecedented rate of debt accumulation”.

However, he commended the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for still managing to record “tremendous progress” in its 16 years of ruling the country. Soludo was speaking in Lagos on Thursday at the third anniversary lecture of the RealNews magazine titled ‘Can a New Buharinomics Save Nigeria?’

“First, I supported President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB) over Jonathan not because I was convinced about the credibility of the APC manifesto (and I said so in my article in January this year) but for three reasons. I was convinced that the last economic team was bankrupting the economy and had no clue as to how to fix it,” he said.

“Second, PMB is the first president of Nigeria under a democracy to have seriously desired the job and struggled for it for over 12 years. To me therefore, he must have a few points to prove, and I was willing to bet on a man who purposefully wanted the job than otherwise. “Third, I was convinced that it would be in the enlightened self-interest of the APC, once in power, to do their utmost to keep power by delivering on the economy unlike the PDP which had taken power for granted. I am still confident that PMB can deliver change (although as I had indicated in my article in January, I didn’t believe that any of the two parties could deliver on their manifesto) but he and his team now need to run at the speed of a 1000 km per hour.

“We must support them to succeed by contributing when we can, and criticising when we must — tough love! I am enjoying my status as ‘an independent’ (I don’t belong to APC or PDP) and I therefore have the liberty to say it as I see it from the balcony! “As at 1999 when PDP came to power, Nigeria was largely a pariah state still lucky to have survived as one indivisible sovereign, especially in the context of the struggle by NADECO and restiveness in many parts of the country. On corruption, Transparency International scored it 1.6 out of 10 and ranked 98 out of 99 countries in 1999.

Nigeria was listed among four countries that were non-compliant on the anti-money laundering rules by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). “We could not service our external debt and relied on stressful rescheduling, with all the intrusive donor conditionalities. Poverty was estimated at 70%, and unemployment at nearly 20%. The 1990s will go down in our economic history as the decade of stagnation: when per capita income growth was zero. Average oil price in May 1999 when President Obasanjo took over was $15.24 while stock of reserves was about $5 billion.” Reflecting on PDP’s and Jonathan’s reign,

Soludo said: “After 16 years, several challenges remain and some have even worsened (especially insecurity). Although President Jonathan’s regime had the worst economic management relative to the resources at its disposal, it must be stressed that tremendous progress was made in the aggregate 16 years of PDP government. “

Yes, it should have left more than $100 billion in reserves but left only $30 billion (still about six times of what it met). We also wish that Jonathan’s team did not leave Nigeria with unprecedented rate of debt accumulation. But, according to statistics from NBS, the PDP handed over a $550 billion economy (largest in Africa and 26th in the world), with 7.5% unemployment rate (better than European Union, France, Sweden, Belgium, etc although the underemployment figure is much higher); 32%?? poverty rate (as claimed by the former Finance Minister, or 61%??: NBS needs to clarify this claim); a stock of reserves of $30 billion; GDP growth rate averaging 6% over last 12 years; a relatively more diversified economy, with ICT penetration from 0.2% to over 60%, and a new contributory pension scheme now with trillions of Naira in pension fund. “Our external debt is down although total debt stock is escalating.

Our Gini coefficient (degree of inequality) is not different from China’s. Nigeria has consolidated and stronger banking system that currently finances both government debt and the private sector, with a relatively vibrant capital market. The capitalization of the Nigerian Stock Exchange grew from less than N1 trillion to N12 trillion as at handover. For the first time, Nigerian economy is now rated by credit rating agencies (Fitch, and Standard and Poor’s).”

Read more at: https://www.thecable.ng/jonathans-regime-worst-economic-management-team-says-soludo

OnankpaBa:
May God have mercy on your generation. Give respect to your elders and parent in order to live long.

chukwudi44:
N10 million bribery scandal: Presidency in dilemma over CCT Chair?

*EFCC retrieves N1.8 m to be used as exhibit
*Attorney General approves prosecution of Umar, removal from office

Soni Daniel, Northern Region Editor
The Presidency is in dilemma over what to do with the embattled Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal,  Justice Danladi Umar, who has been embroiled in a N10 million bribery scandal, forcing the two other members of the tribunal to refuse sitting with him.
The two other judges of the CCT, Robert Odu rtd and Agwaza Atedze had in a joint letter to former President Goodluck Jonathan and copied to the EFCC, drew the attention of the government to the N10 million bribery allegation made against Umar, saying that the issue had brought serious embarrassment to them and the tribunal.
“May we with respect, draw His Excellency’s attention to the allegation of N10 million bribe made against Justice Danladi Yakubu Umar, current chairman of Code of Conduct Tribunal, Abuja, which is being investigated by the EFCC”, they reportedly said.
This allegation has been widely reported in the media, besides embarrassing comments from legal practitioners who have been calling to express their disappointment over the shocking development, although investigation is yet to be concluded.
“We, the two members of the CCT and the entire staff are embarrassed and saddened by this allegation because a tribunal set up to check corruption should not be accused of being corrupt. This would not be in keeping with the transformation agenda of the administration.
“We are mindful of the fact that the Federal Government has zero tolerance policy for corruption, and this is the reason for the establishment of the CCT as one of the agencies to fight corruption in all its ramifications.
“It is our prayer therefore that this allegation will be looked into so that the tribunal can start sitting in the interest of litigants and their counsel,” the two members said in the letter dated April 4, 2014.

Danladi-Umar
Sunday Vanguard investigations spanning weeks indicate that although the Presidency has been embarrassed by the gamut of evidence adduced by key government officials against Umar, it was however handicapped by the fact that the said man is handling the trial of persons suspected to be corrupt.
It was learnt that the Presidency was however carefully studying the bribery case against Umar so as to take a definite and prompt action that would not tarnish the image of the CCT and the administration.
Confusion is said to have become the lot of the Presidency as to whether to move against Umar based on the advice of the former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Mohammed Adoke, to former President Jonathan, that Umar should be removed from office based on the scandal or to initiate a new probe of the bribery scandal.
Adoke was also said to have authorised the EFCC on June 25, 2014, to prosecute Umar and his PA based on the findings by the commission.
In the investigation carried out by the EFCC under its recently removed Chairman, Ibrahim Lamorde, Umar was alleged to have demanded and collected the sum of N1.8 million from one Rasheed Taiwo, a former Deputy Comptroller General of Customs, who was arraigned at the CCT over false declaration of assets.
To pave the way for the prosecution, EFCC crack investigators swopped on Zenith Bank, through which Taiwo allegedly paid the first tranche of N1.8 out of the N10 million to Umar through his PA, Gambo Abdullahi, and retrieved the cheque number and details of the transactions.
The Zenith Bank cheque for the amount of N1.8 million was issued by Taiwo Rasheed Owolabi on December 12, 2012 from his Bourdillon Branch on Awolowo Road, Ikoyi, Lagos, and received the same day by Gambo Abdullahi in his Usuma Branch, Maitama Abuja.
Evidence available to Sunday Vanguard also shows that with the payment of the N1.8 million into Abdullahi’s account, his balance in that account rose to N1, 900, 448, 41. The money was promptly withdrawn the same day by the Abdullahi, who told EFCC investigators that he handed over the cash to Umar by hand.

Buhari
EFCC’s findings showed that Umar used his telephone number, 08033367814 to communicate with Taiwo whose phone number with which he established constant communication with the CCT chairman was given as 08074455022.
Based on the findings, the former EFCC chairman, in a memo dated June 24, 2014, and addressed to the Attorney General of the Federation, Adoke, said that it was obvious from their findings that the CCT chairman might have collected the said amount of money from Taiwo.
The agency said however that it was unable to carry out forensic analysis of the telephone number of Umar, since he insisted that he had since lost that phone.
Lamorde said: “We write to bring to the attention of the Honourable Attorney General to the case which was reported by one Mr. Rasheed Taiwo (DCG Rtd) of 6 A Milverton Road, Lagos, against the chairman of CCT, Justice Danladi Umar and his Personal Assistant, Gambo Abdullahi in December 2012.
“Available circumstantial evidence suggests that the Tribunal Chairman might have indeed demanded and collected money from the complainant through his PA. Efforts made to recover the telephone handset used by Justice Umar have proved abortive, as he claimed that he lost the handset in 2012.
“This has made it impossible to subject it to independent scientific analysis with a view to corroborating the allegation.
Justice Umar also admitted that he met privately with the complainant in his chamber of the CCT. This has since been considered most unethical and highly suspicious conduct on his part.
“There is a preponderance of overwhelming evidence to however prosecute Gambo Abdullahi, who could offer no coherent excuse for receiving N1.8 million into his salary account from Taiwo, who is an accused person standing trial at the CCT.
“The full money has been recovered from him in May 2014 and aptly registered as exhibit. The fact that he made two contradictory statements on the reason he was paid the money, is clearly an attempt to cover the reason the money was paid to him,” Lamorde concluded.
EFCC did not stop there.
The commission promptly raised a two-count charge against Dandali Umar and Ali Gambo Abdullahi. The charge sheet sighted by Sunday Vanguard, was signed by Andrew Akoja, of the Legal and Prosecution Unit of the EFCC.
Count one: “That you Danladi Yakubu Umar and Ali Gambo Abdullahi, being public officers in the CCT, Abuja, on or about December 2012 in Abuja, within the Judicial Division of the Honourable Court, did engage in culpable conspiracy to obtain the sum of N10 million from one Rasheed Taiwo Owolabi for a favour to be shown to him in connection with the discharge of your official duties and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 26 (1) (c) of the ICPC Act 2000 and punishable under Section 10 (a) (11) of the same Act.
Count two: “That you Danladi Yakubu Umar and Ali Gambo Abdullahi, being public officers in the CCT, Abuja, on or about December 2012 in Abuja, within the Judicial Division of the Honourable Court, did engage in culpable conspiracy to obtain the sum of N10 million from one Rasheed Taiwo Owolabi for a favour to be shown to him in connection with the discharge of your official duties and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 26 (1) (c) of the ICPC Act 2000 and punishable under Section 10 (a) (11) of the same Act.
Findings, however, showed that although the case file for the two accused persons was prepared since June 2014, it was not clear why the EFCC later dropped Umar’s name from the charge sheet and took only his PA to court, where the matter is still pending.
The EFCC has remained silent on Umar till date.
An EFCC source said last night that the commission would not comment on a matter that was before a court so as not to commit contempt.
An attempt by Sunday Vanguard to speak with the EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, proved abortive at the weekend, since his lines indicated that they had been switched off.
It was however learnt that the lacuna that has kept Umar in office till date might not be unconnected with the provisions of the law, which make it impossible for the President to remove him from office without getting two thirds majority support from the National Assembly.
It was also leant that the National Judicial Council, NJC, whose opinion on the matter, was sought by the immediate past government, had said that they had no hand in removing him from office but that the EFCC should thoroughly investigate the bribery allegation against him and bring him to book.
In a four-page memorandum written by the former Chief Justice of Nigeria to the Presidency on the issue of Umar, Justice Aloma Marian Mukhtar, made it clear that since it is the President who has the power to appoint the CCT chairman, it is also the President who has the power to remove him from office with the approval of the NASS.
The former CJN who headed the NJC said: “The National Judicial Council, on the recommendation of the Federal Judicial Service Commission, has no power to either discipline or recommend removal from office of the Chairman of the CCT to the President. Hence, the reason why Council was unable to investigate the allegations levelled against Hon. Danladi Yakubu Umar, Chairman of the CCT.
“It is hereby advised that in consonance with the Rule of Law, which is one of the cardinal principles of this administration, the case before EFCC against Umar should be allowed to follow due process.
“Since Constitutionally the Chairman of the CCT is not a judicial officer, the power to discipline and remove him from office, lies with the Presidency, please,” Mukhtar wrote on May 26, 2014 to the Presidency, washing off her hands.
But Mohammed Adoke in another memo to President Jonathan dated May 7, 2015, asked the President to set in motion measures to get Umar removed from office.
Adoke said: “That under the constitution your Excellency may remove the chairman of the CCT upon an address supported by two thirds majority of each House of the National Assembly praying that the chairman of the CCT be so removed for inability to discharge the functions of the office in question on grounds of misconduct or for contravention of the law.
“I am of the humble opinion that the current state of affairs in which the CCT is unable to sit while the institution is increasingly diminished by a pall of suspicion, should not be allowed to fester as it will expose the institution to public ridicule and undermine this administration’s effort to combat corruption.
“IN the light of the foregoing therefore, Your Excellency may wish to initiate the necessary steps for the removal of the CCT chairman from office,” the former Attorney General wrote.
It was learnt that the Presidency might soon take action and reconstitute the CCT to be able to assist the government in its anti-graft war.
A source said the continued stay in office of Umar with the corruption scandal hanging in the air was giving the Buhari administration a serious cause for concern.
How soon action is taken to save the face of the new administration remains to be seen.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/11/n10-million-bribery-scandal-presidency-in-dilemma-over-cct-chair/

braine:
But, at least, Oshiomole is working and he talks with facts and figures, not whining like a little girl like Fayose.